Computer Science Canada Ever Google Yourself? |
| Author: | Craige [ Sat Dec 23, 2006 9:11 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Ever Google Yourself? |
Ever been really board and Google your name, or your alias? It's kind of fun to do. I was sitting here thinking about the fact that I really could use an unique alias that could identify me everywhere I go. However, surprisingly enough, I'm almost always able to get my name There have been few occasions when I couldn't get it. Anyway, the point of this topic is for you to go Google yourself, and laugh at your past. There's always something that comes up that you can look back on and blush. I Googled my name and was shocked at some of the stuff that came up; especially regarding the improvements in my linguistic skills over the years, but also with my general knowledge and ideas. So go ahead: Google your self. Laugh at you faults. Oh, and I guess I won't be looking for an alias to use. People know me by Craige, and it's more professional then anything else I could come up with. |
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| Author: | md [ Sat Dec 23, 2006 9:49 pm ] |
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I used to be on page 73 of the Google results for my name. Since then I think I've dropped even lower. Interestingly enough I am at the top of the results for minor_deity, page 3 for cornflake, and non-existent for md. 3rd for nxor and all of nxor.org. All in all I am pretty safe from anyone goggling my name and finding something embarrassing  |
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| Author: | TokenHerbz [ Sat Dec 23, 2006 11:41 pm ] |
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md you looked threw 73 pages of google to find yourself? |
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| Author: | md [ Sat Dec 23, 2006 11:44 pm ] |
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TokenHerbz wrote: md you looked threw 73 pages of google to find yourself?
Of course! I was bored, and really didn't have much more interesting to do. |
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| Author: | Craige [ Sun Dec 24, 2006 12:23 am ] |
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Oh wow. I start getting results on the fourth page for just "Craige", and I'm first page for "Craige Leeder", as well as "Craige PHP" (PHP being the language I use most, I figured it's a good search term). And those last two searches are all me until about the 7th page I believe, where it starts getting other matches. |
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| Author: | Amailer [ Sun Dec 24, 2006 3:22 am ] |
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Results 1 - 10 of about 947 for Amailer. (0.09 seconds) It used to be more! Most of it is about me :/ |
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| Author: | md [ Sun Dec 24, 2006 5:51 am ] |
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See my problem is that my name is relatively common; and not only that but of the people I share my name with the rest of them seem to be leaders in various fields or otherwise quite famous. |
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| Author: | MihaiG [ Sun Dec 24, 2006 11:07 am ] |
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hehe http://www.google.ca/search?q=Mihai+Gheorghe&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a at one point the number one hit for me was the secret service its moved down now but heres the linkhttp://www.secretservice.gov/wanted_gheorghe.shtml shhhh dont tell them where i am |
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| Author: | TokenHerbz [ Sun Dec 24, 2006 11:45 am ] |
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LOL i typed my name in, and compsci came up... growing sites, dope sites, other games i played online came up HAHA, Thats halarious. |
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| Author: | CodeMonkey2000 [ Sun Dec 24, 2006 12:07 pm ] |
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i typed in my alias and only compsi came up. when i typed my real name i found no matches  |
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| Author: | [Gandalf] [ Sun Dec 24, 2006 4:16 pm ] |
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First match for my real name is me, the rest aren't. Sadly, for "Gandalf" there's 7490000 other results, so it's hard to tell... For a few of my older nicks I get 50+ results that are all, or just about all me. Neither of my emails get anymore hits, fortunately. And that's about it. Overall, nothing too surprising. |
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| Author: | Clayton [ Sun Dec 24, 2006 5:28 pm ] |
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hehe.. on my alias (my old one [SuperFreak82 for anyone who doesn't know]) 3rd down is a link to the Turing Walkthrough (Cervantes still hasn't changed it )
on my current alias 4th down is a CIA link 
and 7 links down is a link to CompSci, the others seem to be about some random myspace guy and a fine arts person 
finally, my real name (Clayton Shier) spawned a first result from FreeRange Code, everything else was from a bunch of other random stuff, interesting really. |
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| Author: | bugzpodder [ Mon Dec 25, 2006 11:14 am ] |
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Yeah if you have a relatively common handle and a relatively common name, then google would have nothing about you (or that it is so burried in its not worth looking XD). |
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| Author: | Craige [ Mon Dec 25, 2006 1:37 pm ] |
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bugzpodder wrote: Yeah if you have a relatively common handle and a relatively common name, then google would have nothing about you (or that it is so burried in its not worth looking XD).
That's why I'm not going to choose an alias. If it's not unique, and doesn't fit my personality, then I don't want it. Those kind of aliases are hard to find. My name is more unique online, expecually in the programming realm, then anything else I could come up with. |
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| Author: | wtd [ Mon Dec 25, 2006 5:43 pm ] |
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Craige wrote: PHP being the language I use most, I figured it's a good search term
Don't worry. We can help you with that. The first and most important step is admitting that you have a problem. |
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| Author: | Craige [ Mon Dec 25, 2006 8:55 pm ] |
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wtd wrote: Craige wrote: PHP being the language I use most, I figured it's a good search term
Don't worry. We can help you with that. The first and most important step is admitting that you have a problem. So, your one of those anti-PHP people, eh? I know PHP has it's down sides; I'll admit it. But it's an all-in-all good language, and I will stick with it a long while yet, even with it's pit falls. PHP was my first language, and it's been improving ever since I started with it. I'm hoping PHP 6 will bring some nice new features to the language we have all been waiting for. |
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| Author: | wtd [ Mon Dec 25, 2006 10:33 pm ] |
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Craige wrote: wtd wrote: Craige wrote: PHP being the language I use most, I figured it's a good search term
Don't worry. We can help you with that. The first and most important step is admitting that you have a problem. So, your one of those anti-PHP people, eh? I'm one of those knows-a-dozen-or-so-languages people who can spot good ones and bad ones.  |
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| Author: | bugzpodder [ Tue Dec 26, 2006 1:08 pm ] |
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the biggie in php6 is unicode. I had to mess around and write (copy) a utf-8 to unicode function to get things working. |
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| Author: | apomb [ Wed Dec 27, 2006 9:32 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Ever Google Yourself? |
wow ... just ... wow |
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| Author: | peterggmss [ Tue Jan 09, 2007 1:58 pm ] |
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do a google on "peterbrowne" and see what you get |
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| Author: | War_Caymore [ Tue Jan 09, 2007 3:04 pm ] |
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I googled myself and got NOTHING! I looked through 23 pages and found nothing of me, or any of my aliases (Alucard, Skatman) The only thing i got for a find was war_caymore with a couple links to threads i posted here 
The net hates me ... |
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| Author: | Craige [ Tue Jan 09, 2007 3:12 pm ] |
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War_Caymore @ Tue Jan 09, 2007 3:04 pm wrote: I googled myself and got NOTHING! I looked through 23 pages and found nothing of me, or any of my aliases (Alucard, Skatman)
The only thing i got for a find was war_caymore with a couple links to threads i posted here
The net hates me ... Some people wont come up. You really do need to have a unique alias to find something, and you need to have lots of good material for Google to index (not to mention you need to post that material on the right sites). I want to do a whole bunch of stuff to get just my first name up to the first page of results. I'm going to be writing some PHP articles and submitting them to a number of sites, such as CompSci.ca. |
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| Author: | apomb [ Fri Jan 19, 2007 2:57 am ] |
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Theres actually a lot of stuff about me indexed by google. I'm listed in Google Earth, Linux Counter, Debian Users, On a site about my church but #1 Listed is Compsci.ca Wiki ... which is actually quite an old entry ... i should update that. |
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| Author: | rdrake [ Fri Jan 19, 2007 8:14 am ] |
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I myself don't appear until the bottom of the 8th page  . This author guy is on there a lot though. |
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| Author: | CyberGeek [ Fri Jan 19, 2007 6:11 pm ] |
| Post subject: | RE:Ever Google Yourself? |
Well yes, I personally think all computer geeks have Google searched themselves or there Alias. But have you ever searched Google on Google? |
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| Author: | md [ Fri Jan 19, 2007 8:59 pm ] |
| Post subject: | RE:Ever Google Yourself? |
Yup, google is at teh top
On a related note... how many people have searched significant others or co-workers? You can learn many an interesting thing... |
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| Author: | CyberGeek [ Sat Jan 20, 2007 11:41 pm ] |
| Post subject: | RE:Ever Google Yourself? |
Hehehe. I love seeing how Google is on the top when you search google on google. |
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| Author: | Amailer [ Sat Jan 20, 2007 11:56 pm ] |
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What did you expect to be on top? Not many other companies named 'Google' out there :/ |
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| Author: | ZeroPaladn [ Mon Jan 22, 2007 9:23 am ] |
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I googled my alias and got tons of compsci stuff, my phpbbnow account, and my nintendo account for Metroid Prime: Hunters. 7 relevant searches found. For my rela name, everything is about someone acutally named Dylan Kuehl, who is the prez of DK Arts and is a well established artist/musician. about 45 000 relevant searches found. Check it out. Heres the cool thing, since my last name is Germna, the deeper you get into the pages, its starts to actually become german webpages. Sweet. got to page 25, couldnt find me myself. that sucks. |
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| Author: | jamonathin [ Mon Jan 22, 2007 12:58 pm ] |
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Thats why unique names <cough> jamonathin <hack> are better -> all finds are actually me =) As for my real name, i have about 2.25 of 2.5 pages that are actually me. |
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| Author: | BlackSwanne [ Tue Feb 06, 2007 2:29 pm ] |
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MihaiG @ Sun Dec 24, 2006 11:07 am wrote: hehe
http://www.google.ca/search?q=Mihai+Gheorghe&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a at one point the number one hit for me was the secret service its moved down now but heres the linkhttp://www.secretservice.gov/wanted_gheorghe.shtml shhhh dont tell them where i am Dude, I can see you from this computer. You're in the next room. XD <3 glass windows in school comp labs. Also.. Never google the last name 'Cumming'. Yeah. That. Don't do that..but NEVER do a google image search for Cumming 
OMFGMYEYES. Yeah, when I my SN for most sites (Which is not blackswanne by the way) every single hit is me on some forum or another. If I google my full name (like..the real one..you know..REAL names?) I get two hits that are actually me!!!!1!!1! Wow this was a long post. |
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| Author: | MihaiG [ Tue Feb 06, 2007 7:06 pm ] |
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do i know you??   |
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| Author: | Clayton [ Tue Feb 06, 2007 7:46 pm ] |
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he might not, but I most certainly do rdrake and I have already called them. Expect the call soon  |
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| Author: | Hikaru79 [ Thu Feb 08, 2007 2:35 am ] |
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There's this fairly famous Romanian Oboe player for some philharmonic with my exact name (Adrian Petrescu), so I've pretty much given up hope of ever topping my own google results page. Hikaru79, on the other hand, gives back thousands of results, and those are almost all me |
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| Author: | md [ Thu Feb 08, 2007 4:08 pm ] |
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/me notes that there are many people who share his name who are/were more famous then he'll ever be/wants to be. I'll never be in the top 50 google pages  |
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| Author: | Zeke Unshortness [ Wed Feb 28, 2007 1:13 pm ] |
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I googled (is that a word?) myself and got a bunch of stuff about my sisters.  I googled my username and got some stuff in compsci  and a list of Wikipedia contributors . I didn't contribute to Wikipedia. (yet!) |
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| Author: | Tony [ Wed Feb 28, 2007 3:33 pm ] |
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If you search for Tony (limiting results to Canada), I do in fact come up first. I'm pretty sure this has to do with all the blog comments that link back to mine as Tony so. |
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